Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Petersburg, Fla...
This test was a prime part of Project XS-F2-U25?a scientific investigation of driving skill begun with $14,000 of FERA funds last September under the direction of Professor Harry Reginald DeSilva. Born 37 years ago in Pensacola, Fla., Harry DeSilva got a Ph. D. from Harvard, another from England's Cambridge, lectured at Canada's McGill. When he took charge of Massachusetts State's psychological laboratory three years ago, he was an imaginative, and mechanical-minded scientist, disillusioned with what he calls "pencil-&-paper" psychology and with antiquated gadgets which had changed little since Germany's Wundt...
...Miami Beach (Fla.) Tribune's crusading Reporter Shannon Cormack happened to let an error of fact into a story he wrote last February about Circuit Judge Jefferson B. Browne, who was trying a Florida State Senator on gambling charges. Cited for contempt, fined $50 and sentenced to one day in jail, Newshawk Cormack appealed. Last week, all appeals having failed, Cormack served his one-day sentence...
...Petersburg, Fla...
...last month when the world's biggest maker of paper bags leased a tract along the Savannah River on the old Hermitage Plantation,* the city's businessmen & bankers were on pins & needles lest the company choose another site for its first Southern paper mill. Fernandino, Fla. tried desperately to wangle PWA funds to build a pine-pulp mill, which Union Bag was to operate. Then Jacksonville was discussed. But at last Savannah's newspapers got their chance to welcome a new industry with banner headlines...